I dropped my car off at AMD this morning at 8.30 for a Stage 2 remap, which consisted of a Miltek Turbo back exhaust, De-cat, New panel filter and remap. They took the keys and off it went to the land of AMD. I went and did a bit of shopping, had a bit of lunch and returned at 2 to see my car just going on it's last run up the road with a laptop attached.
The service was excellent, very informative and very good honest people to deal with.
So as you can see on the Dyno graph, pre-remap my A3 2.0 TDI put out 165 bhp @ 3850 rpm and 264 lbft @ 2650. Post-remap 206 bhp @ 3450 and 328 lbft @ 2690.
I did not expect to see these kind of figures, I knew the Audi felt like it had more than 140 bhp, but not that much more, maybe the good 100 mile thrash on the way there and Shell V-power did the trick or maybe it is just a bit of dyno lottery.
But then after seeing the figures, I looked at the curves, the post-remap curve peaks far to early, especially as mine is a DSG car, so when you use kick-down it's rev zone is actually above and out of peak power! this was noticeable on the drive home and had me resorting to the paddles to change gear manually to keep it in the new Zone, it feels and sounds to me that the Turbo boost and fuelling is reduced quiet dramatically after peak power. I did mention this prior to taking the car from AMD and they said try it and if it does not work on the road come back and we can have another look, which was very good of them.
Peak power needs to come in higher up the rev range, similar to the original map, somewhere between 3900 rpm and 4100 rpm to make the car feel faster as revs rise and more progressive. At the moment although it feels faster at certain RPM's it just is not enjoyable at the moment.
The service was excellent, very informative and very good honest people to deal with.
So as you can see on the Dyno graph, pre-remap my A3 2.0 TDI put out 165 bhp @ 3850 rpm and 264 lbft @ 2650. Post-remap 206 bhp @ 3450 and 328 lbft @ 2690.
I did not expect to see these kind of figures, I knew the Audi felt like it had more than 140 bhp, but not that much more, maybe the good 100 mile thrash on the way there and Shell V-power did the trick or maybe it is just a bit of dyno lottery.
But then after seeing the figures, I looked at the curves, the post-remap curve peaks far to early, especially as mine is a DSG car, so when you use kick-down it's rev zone is actually above and out of peak power! this was noticeable on the drive home and had me resorting to the paddles to change gear manually to keep it in the new Zone, it feels and sounds to me that the Turbo boost and fuelling is reduced quiet dramatically after peak power. I did mention this prior to taking the car from AMD and they said try it and if it does not work on the road come back and we can have another look, which was very good of them.
Peak power needs to come in higher up the rev range, similar to the original map, somewhere between 3900 rpm and 4100 rpm to make the car feel faster as revs rise and more progressive. At the moment although it feels faster at certain RPM's it just is not enjoyable at the moment.
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